Austria Area Code

+43 is the dialing code for Austria.

Austria is dominated by beautiful mountain views. But the country is also penetrated by the Danube, an important trade route for the Central European industrialized country. The Social Democrats and the bourgeois People’s Party have long dominated politics but in recent decades have lost voters to especially the right-wing populist and immigrant Christian party FPÖ. The party’s successes in the 2017 election led to it being able to form a government with the People’s Party.

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Geography and climate

Austria Area Code

Austria consists of almost two-thirds of mountains. The Alps extend from the border with Switzerland in the west to Vienna in the east, where the country turns into a plain landscape. On the surface, Austria is not much bigger than Svealand, but still borders on eight nations.

The Alps are divided into three mountain ranges separated by marked valleys in the east-west direction. In the middle chain lies the Grossglockner massif with the country’s highest peak and the largest glacier.

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The Danube flows through northern Austria on its way east towards the Black Sea. The lowland area of ​​the Wiener Basin is spreading in the northeast. Other important rivers such as Inn, Salzach, Enns, Mur and Drau are all tributaries to the Danube.

Of the many lakes in the country, the most famous and scenic are in the Salzburg area and in the state of Carinthia in the south. Largest is Lake Neusiedler at the border with Hungary. A small part of Lake Constance, at the border with Germany and Switzerland, belongs to Austria.

Country Facts

Geography

Cultivated land 38.4 %
Land area 83871 km 2

Population and health

Population development 0.55 ‰
Urban population (Urbanization) 66 %
Death rate 9.42 per 1000 residents
Life expectancy: Women 84.15 years
Life expectancy: Men 78.76 years
Birth rate 9.41 births per 1000 residents
HDI index 0.885
Population 8665550
Infant mortality 3.45 deaths / 1000 births

Population Graph Source: Countryaah.com

Energy

Electricity, production 64740 million kWh
Energy consumption per resident 3927.6 kg. oil per resident
Natural gas, production 1244 million cubic meters
Crude oil, production million tons

Infrastructure

Internet users 83.7 per 100 residents
Mobile subscriptions 150 per 100 residents
Passenger cars 578 per 1000 residents

Business and economics

Unemployment 5.3% of the workforce
GDP 47300 per resident
Primary occupations 5.5 %
Secondary profession 26 %
Tertiary professions 68.5 %

Austria has a temperate continental climate. The rainfall is abundant, not least in the west and can locally amount to 2,000 millimeters per year.

Due to the highly varying altitude conditions, there are large differences in temperature and precipitation sometimes also between neighboring places.

The lowland areas of the Danube valley in the north and the plain in the east have more continental climate with cold summers, hot summers and relatively little rainfall. In the south-east, the climate is affected by the proximity to the Mediterranean; here summers longer and warmer. In the alpine areas, the rich rainfall provides large amounts of snow in the winter.

FACTS – GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

Surface

83 858 km2 (2018)

Time

Swedish

Adjacent country (s)

Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy

Capital with number of residents

Vienna 1 524 000

Other major cities

Graz 226 400, Linz 186 300, Salzburg 144 800, Innsbruck 113 800, Klagenfurt 90 300 (2001)

Highest mountain

Grossglockner (3798 m asl)

Important rivers

The Danube

Largest lake

Lake Neusiedl

Average Precipitation / month

Vienna 38 mm (Jan), 63 mm (July)

Average / day

Vienna -0.7 °C (Jan), 19.7 °C (July)